Flipkart to shut down website by April 2016 and Migrate to App

[iPwnz]

My post from the FK feedback thread.

@iPwnz

rant.

Alright Flipkart just crushed whatever respect which I had left of them (it was going down and fast).
This first happened yesterday. I was trying to check out the new Moto E on their site (from my phone) when suddenly it launched the play store. At first I thought that it was an ad. I tried again and again but the same thing happened. I finally gave up.
And today morning I tried to open the site when I again got the same issue like the previous night. Then I realized that they no longer supported viewing their site from mobile browser. I was like WTF! I immediately contacted Flipkart on Twitter who gave these replies:

“Download app option is made available to make
your shopping experience with Flipkart much
better. Do contact us for any questions.”

“We’re confident, if you accommodate the app on
your phone, you’ll love the experience it offers.
We recommend to try it once.”

They are basically forcing mobile users to download their app and browse using it. Now I don’t know how their app is nor am I even willing to try because I hate apps of e-com sites and would never install it. I can just check it from my phone whenever I like. Their reason for this move, as far as i can tell, is all business aka money nothing more. I don’t think that its even for the “good of the customers” but just so they can get more ads or charge higher costs or whatever (only they themselves know their internal policies anyway). I’m also not after discount coupons. I’m not that stingy. But I’d like to at least enjoy my time doing what I like on their site without any problem. I like using browser to surf online because I can also save pages for future use and quickly load a particular product from that saved page itself instead of using the link bookmark.

My point is why are they forcing users to download their app? As a consumer I should be able to choose what I like to install and what I don’t. Not get it shoved down my throat. I really hate and detest these kinds of things. But I can now say confidently that the last bits of love which I had for them have been all crushed by themselves.
So much for net neutrality. Sayonara lolkart.

https://www.techenclave.com/community/threads/flipkart-feedback-thread.121483/page-5

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Post merged on Mar 24, 2015

And don’t get me started on the privacy permission! I ain’t installing this crap.
Not just Flipkart but other E-com sites ask for various permissions. I mean wtf do you need my gallery and messages and contact details for?? I don’t know what since I’m not expert but something here is fishy.